They are absolutely normal human beings that are in no way under the remote control of time traveling humanoid insect beings who have the seen the unbelievable success of this podcast in the future and then have used their abilities to attemp to take control of the podcast in the present moment.

Kanada had the bright idea to start a podcast where he would attempt to keep Matt updated about current events. Matt vehemently refuses to watch the news and with out Kanadas valiant efforts to keep him informed he would have no idea what is going on.